Sentences with phrase «on boxing movies»

Has the tap finally run dry on boxing movies?

Sutter's script is built on boxing movie clichés and formulas, telling the predictable fall - and - get - back - up champion story audiences have seen before for decades and decades.

Southpaw Rated R for language throughout, and some violence Available on DVD and Blu - ray Training Day director Antoine Fuqua gives us his take on a boxing movie with this drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a champion heavyweight who faces an unimaginable tragedy which takes him from being on top to spiraling down to the very bottom.

Not exact matches

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There are moments in Real Steel where I forgot I'd already seen enough movies about fighting robots, forgot I was too old to be the target audience, forgot that I think Hugh Jackman is turning smarmier with every passing film, forgot that overly expressive child actors set my teeth on edge, forgot to think about all the other underdog / boxing / father - son movies this one is ripping off.

With adrenaline - pumping movies, field - tested analysis from the hardest hitting experts on INSIDE THE NFL ™, and hard - hitting SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING — it doesn't get any more thrilling than this.

The direction just isn't at the form of the actors and it's a shame, this could've been one of the better boxing movies based on the true story itself.

But this is still a boxing drama from the director of The Equalizer, and it appears to hit a lot of formulaic sports - movie beats on its way to the inevitable final fight.

Robert De Niro had to convince fellow veteran actor Sylvester Stallone to sign on for their new boxing movie Grudge Match as the Hollywood hardman...

On its new summer date, «Mission Impossible 5» will open against the «Point Break» remake starring Luke Bracey from Warner Bros., «Self / Less,» the Ryan Reynolds sci - fi thriller from Focus Features and «Southpaw,» the Antoine Fuqua - directed boxing movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal from the Weinstein Company.

BATMAN CHRISTIAN BALE feared he was heading for a real - life beating on the set of new boxing movie THE FIGHTER - because the brawler he was...

Based on a book with the same title written by Matthew Quick, the movie «Silver Linings Playbook» is a 2012 American rom - com drama that is written and directed by David O. Russell (also the director of the film «The Fighter», an Oscar - winning boxing drama).

For a boxing movie centered around what should be a very emotionally potent father / daughter relationship, Southpaw is relentlessly grim without ever earning the heaviness that Sutter tries to pull out of every second we spend on screen.

It helps that Boiler Room director Younger, making his first movie for 12 years, has the advantage of being based on a less well - known true life story (at least to those not versed in boxing lore), its dramatic twists subsequently packing a bit more surprise and punch.

From the baseball field to the boxing ring, here are some of the best sports movies ever made that should be on your must - see list.

Pounding out aggression on the canvas and into our hearts, the best boxing movies capture a private sense of poetry in the most unlikely of places.

A decent boxing film that spends time on training and tactics — something like Raging Bull or Rocky — always has a shot at becoming one of the best action movies ever.

Fans of Miles Teller, boxing and sports movies in general will probably come to appreciate something about this film while others are probably going to need to keep on browsing for something else.

Frankie (Eastwood) is a grizzled boxing trainer in the Burgess Meredith mold, chewing leather and spitting nails and initially refusing to take on a «girl» boxer even though the girl in question, Maggie (Hilary Swank, playing another desexualized female), demonstrates the kind of tenacious true grit from which Karate Kid movies are born.

Most of the opening act of the movie doesn't use boxing as anything but a backdrop for Balboa's life, as he tries to persuade the shy Adrianna, or Adrian as he lovingly calls her, to go out on a date with him.

But to skip Creed on that basis is a mistake, for the rest of its two + hours are so great, so tautly filmed and featuring such honest, intelligent performances that it becomes a genuinely excellent movie that happens to be about boxing.

One could dismiss the movie as propaganda for the Navy but only if one could find any scene in the movie that glorifies finding oneself on the bridge of an aircraft carrier over discovering your inner strength in the boxing ring.

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Wahlberg played Ward in the boxing movie after spending five years prior working on getting it made, and it went on to receive seven Academy Award nominations.

Role opposite Mark Wahlberg in boxing movie The Fighter brings Melissa Leo Oscar success on second nomination

That's because we've already seen many of the boxing movies — from «The Set - Up» and «Somebody Up There Likes Me» to «Rocky» and «Raging Bull» — that «The Fighter» draws on.

On The Official Kid Critic Report Card, «Resurrecting the Champ» gets a B. It's the first boxing movie I've seen since «Rocky Balboa» and, I've got to tell you, I liked it almost as much.

A profile of the emerging director on Filmmaker's site reveals that Bianco also has a writing credit on an upcoming boxing - centric movie exec - produced by Martin Scorsese.

All of this points to Kuosmanen's most resonant subversion of the boxing movie genre: its emphasis on traditionally «feminine» qualities of love and sacrifice within a predominantly masculine sport.

Hollywood also loves a great comeback story, and so many boxing movies like 2016's Bleed For This (about boxing champion Vinny Pazienza) focus on the rise — or the fall — of a great fighter.

There may not be a better boxing moving — indeed there are few better movies, period — than» On the Waterfront,» a film about «an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman (who) struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses,» according to IMDb.

What Clint Eastwood has done is turn the sports movie formula on its ear with this film, focusing on the human aspects of boxing and shifting focus directly to the ultimate price of such an endeavor with a twist at the end of the second act.

With «Journeyman», a love story wrapped inside a boxing movie, he reminds us of what he can do on both sides of the camera — and as a screenwriter, too.

Turning the conventions of the boxing movie on their head, Journeyman (15) begins with a successful world - title bout and gets more miserable from there, as veteran fighter Matty Burton (Paddy Considine) sustains a life - changing brain injury.

I try not to be too hard on origin stories, I don't know how they can ever be fresh anymore, sort of like boxing movies lol.

Ocean eventually shared the song on his Tumblr around the time the movie was released and the song featured in the boxing drama Southpaw instead.

The «Rocky» musical is to close after just five months on Broadway.The stage show - which is based on the 1976 boxing movie which starred Sylvester...

There are also some really great production featurettes, like the four - part production diary, «Pre-Fight Preparations,» a behind - the - scenes look at Russell Crowe's physical transformation into Braddock («Personal Journey»), and a cool featurette on the multi-angle filming of the movie's boxing sequences («Lights, Camera, Action»).

WHY: The idea of pairing Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro in a boxing movie may sound great on paper, but only if it had been made during their «Rocky» and «Raging Bull» days.

I like watching movies on tabkets and casting from tablets to a TV screen so did not want the letter boxing that would result from a 4:3 aspect ratio.